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We had a lot of house parties in Cornwall. I'm now only the president. We talked and talked, and agreed there should be an organisation.
We got onto them, and they also said there should be an organisation, and Conrad and I looked at each other and said 'that's our idea!'.
I was the one person apparently who had a flat in London, and I invited them all around. That was one of the few hiccups in Survival's history.
Thinking of that history, are the issues the same as they were 40 years ago?
If they have made it clear that they do not wish to be contacted, then that is their right and should be respected. There was a big party, but he was glued to the television. Everyone was terrified of the millennium bug. Libraries of information are lost each time the last shaman dies in a tribe, and a tribe a year was dying out.
Bless him, he did start the whole environmental movement.
We disagreed a little bit on the philosophy of Survival, as he was much more interested in the whole global environmental issue, and tribal people were only a small part of that. But it was through meeting Indian tribes along the way, accidentally rather than on purpose, that I began to get an interest in their predicament.
Richard is still known as the last Englishman to have been killed by uncontacted Indians.
Nobody really remembers, because there were no minutes taken, but there were about 10 or a dozen people at that first meeting including John Hemming, Teddy Goldsmith, Guppy and Huxley and Conrad, and we just sat around talking and we decided to meet every week for the next 5, 6 or 7 weeks
I always say that, because it was my wine and my flat, it was me who ended up top of the heap and the chairman of Survival International.
Where was the flat?
Eastbourne Terrace, next to Paddington.
How did you all know each other?
Because if you can demarcate land that is theirs, not only will the Indians survive but they will look after it better than we do. He said as soon as it hits Fiji everything will fall apart. One would have been saying it wasn't their fault.
The whole unfortunate incident would have focussed people's minds on some of the issues, and so perhaps it had a positive outcome in that sense.
In an unintended, slow-burn way, it did.
And incidentally I wrote an article in that first edition of The Ecologist.
Teddy and Robert and Francis Huxley and his girlfriend and others used to come down and stay with us. He ended up confusing the message. He lives on Bodmin Moor.